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Title: Map of the Colorado River Basin
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Originally named Boulder Dam, it was renamed Hoover Dam in 1946. Shown here is a map from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation. It includes parts of Nevada, Arizona, California and Lower California (now Baja). It shows the Colorado River, the damsites, other waterways and railroad lines in and out of the area below Boulder Dam. Also shown are irrigated or irrigable areas.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009788
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Reservoirs-Hoover Dam.; N-000-388.4 5x7
CARL0000011556
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83854
Subject: Dams--Arizona
Dams--Nevada
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
United States.Bureau of Reclamation

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